Before the beginning
After the great war between heaven and hell
God created the earth
and gave dominion over it to the crafty ape he called Man

To each generation, was born a creature of light
and a creature of darkness
And great armies clashed by night in the ancient war between good and evil

There was magic then
Nobility
And unimaginable cruelty
And so it was, until the day that a false sun exploded over trinity
and man forever traded away wonder
for reason

Prologue to Carnivale